‘Terrorist helped synagogue attacker Jihad Al-Shamie scope defence facility’

A Pakistani man has appeared in court charged with terror offences over allegations he drove the Manchester synagogue attacker to survey a major UK defence facility. Mohammad Asim Bashir, 31, an associate of killer Jihad Al-Shamie, is accused of driving the terrorist to the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom on August 14 this year ‘to carry out hostile reconnaissance’. The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, in Swindon, provides higher education for personnel in the British Armed Forces, Civil…